PRICE OF FOODSTUFFS
DOMINION’S GOOD RECORD (From Our Resident Reporter.) WELLINGTON, Monday. In spite of the fact that the cost of living in New Zealand is still 60 per cent, higher than it was before the war, the increase in the retail price of food in the Dominion since July, 1914, is less than in any other country in the world, with the exception of South Africa. According to calculations made by the Government Statistician, Mr. Malcolm Fraser, food prices in South Africa are 20 per cent, above pre-war level; in New Zealand, 44 per cent.; in Germahy, 51 per cent.; in Australia, 52 per cent.; in the United Kingdom, 56 per cent.; in Ireland, 66 per cent.; in France, 489 per cent.; and in Italy, 517 per cent. Pity the poor Czecho-Slovakians! Their food costs them 815 per cent, more than it did in 1914.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 142, 6 September 1927, Page 3
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